2 Corinthians 6

¹Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain.

²For he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you. In a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

³We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

⁴but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God: in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

⁵in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

⁶in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

⁷in the word of truth, in the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

⁸by glory and dishonour, by evil report and good report, as deceivers and yet true,

⁹as unknown and yet well known, as dying and behold—we live, as punished and not killed,

¹⁰as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.

¹¹Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.

¹²You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.

¹³Now in return—I speak as to my children—you also open your hearts.

¹⁴Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

¹⁵What agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what portion does a believer have with an unbeliever?

¹⁶What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

¹⁷Therefore “‘Come out from amongst them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

¹⁸I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”